Ontology of humanity regarded from the perspective of biblical anthropology Cover Image

Ontologia umanului privită prin prisma antropologiei biblice
Ontology of humanity regarded from the perspective of biblical anthropology

Author(s): Vasile Borca
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: Christian anthropology; Divine image; micro cosmos; mikrotheos; Monogenism; human anthropology;

Summary/Abstract: The human ontology and the multitude of problems that it raises,connected to human status and condition, find their plausible answer only inChristian anthropology, which has theology as its premise and which offers thekey to understanding the human universe. The profoundness and complexity ofthe human being is emphasized through its iconicity or Divine image, whichresides in the existential structure of the human. The origin of the human being isfixed in God, in His creation; it receives an exceptional dimension and dynamic,which imposes and sets out the aspiration towards a divine model.The human concentrates in itself the entire material and spiritual existence,that’s why it bears the name of “micro cosmos” and, at the same time, that of“mikrotheos”, i.e. the synthesis of the Universe.The foundation of the world or the basis of human anthropology is Christ,the embodied Son of God. He achieved the greatest closeness between humanand God, offering the human the possibility to exceed his limited materialcondition and rise to the dignity of Divinity’s partner, to the dimension ofeternity (John 3:16).

  • Issue Year: V/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 13-34
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian